Manual input of new mobile sites banned by EU?
Discussion
Hi folks,
I have just bought a new sat nav with overspeed warnings. Problem is that newly-lowered limits may not appear on the database for 12 months.
My old unit allowed me to mark new mobile trap sites and also to input the speed limit but the new one doesn't. I asked tech support why this useful feature had been removed and they said it was illegal in mainland Europe so they had removed it here too. Hmm.
Local limits were lowered from national 60 mph to 30 mph about a year ago. Guess where the trappers are operating? There have been no accidents at all in the trap area that I am aware of.
It's disappointing that the option to mark new mobile sites has been removed as it can take some time before the site hits the database. I haven't passed the most popular recent trap site in my area yet with the new GPS so don't know if it's on the database though they have been trapping there for about a year and have caught over 100 locals exceeding the new limit. They caught 79 in the first few months when the limit dropped from 60 to 30. I am on the local council and asked police for the figures.
I also wonder if a 200 yard warning of a trap site is enough in a 30 limit. The one at in my locality sets up at the bottom of a long downward hill and is catching folk as they round a gentle curve about 400 yards away at the top of the hill.
Anyone confirm the EU ruling?
Cheers
T
I have just bought a new sat nav with overspeed warnings. Problem is that newly-lowered limits may not appear on the database for 12 months.
My old unit allowed me to mark new mobile trap sites and also to input the speed limit but the new one doesn't. I asked tech support why this useful feature had been removed and they said it was illegal in mainland Europe so they had removed it here too. Hmm.
Local limits were lowered from national 60 mph to 30 mph about a year ago. Guess where the trappers are operating? There have been no accidents at all in the trap area that I am aware of.
It's disappointing that the option to mark new mobile sites has been removed as it can take some time before the site hits the database. I haven't passed the most popular recent trap site in my area yet with the new GPS so don't know if it's on the database though they have been trapping there for about a year and have caught over 100 locals exceeding the new limit. They caught 79 in the first few months when the limit dropped from 60 to 30. I am on the local council and asked police for the figures.
I also wonder if a 200 yard warning of a trap site is enough in a 30 limit. The one at in my locality sets up at the bottom of a long downward hill and is catching folk as they round a gentle curve about 400 yards away at the top of the hill.
Anyone confirm the EU ruling?
Cheers
T
I think there has been some rulings - but not sure, pocketgpsworld would know (and their database gets updated a little quicker, though not usable on latest TomToms yet)
Tafia said:
...and they said it was illegal in mainland Europe so they had removed it here too...
Anyone confirm the EU ruling?
So, let's just think about this a minute.Anyone confirm the EU ruling?
This is, apparently, an "EU ruling" that applies to the vast majority of EU countries, but - somehow - not to the UK. Unless I dozed off and missed the news saying something quite surprising about That Nice Mr Farage, the UK is still an EU country. Ergo, any EU ruling would apply to the UK too, so they'd have had to here by law, too. But they're not even trying to claim that.
My money's on it just being the usual bull excuse by a phonechimp who doesn't actually know why.
SOME countries might have legislation bearing a passing resemblance, but it'll be local legislation, not EU.
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